Thesis Statement: Professional athletes should not have a salary cap because they have put in more work‚ time‚ and dedication than others‚ and now they have more to strive for so they can be the top performer. Body Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence: Many professional athletes fought the pain and dedication to make the big money they make now. Supporting Evidence #1: According to the article “an athlete’s salary can range from $100‚000 to $1‚000‚000 (Professional athletes‚ 2014)”. Explanation: Not
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Janelle Glanville CS204-15: Professional Presence Unit 2 Assignment Part 1: Watch and Analysis The closest slide based on my profession and career goal was slide #2: The Informational Technology Professional. The slide shows a woman at a computer dressed business casual. From the picture she seemed to be professional. She was at her desk. She looked very alert and helpful. The description said she should be knowledgeable‚ have good communication skills‚ and be able be able to complete tasks in a
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Professional athletes are role models for many young children & adolescents. If for example a young child hears about an athlete using drugs‚ he might think that using drugs is all right for him as well. Similarly‚ if the athlete is not severely punished then the child will think he can get off easy too. However if a child sees that the sport wants to remediate any and all situations involving professional athletes taking drugs‚ he will be helped to understand that taking drugs is socially unacceptable
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Professional sports have gained a reputation for outrageously high player salaries. The challenge for team owners is to attract the best talent while balancing their overall investment. The five major sports in the United States – Major League Baseball (MLB)‚ National Football League (NFL)‚ National Basketball Association (NBA)‚ National Hockey League (NHL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) - have differing systems for managing player salaries. No one sport has the perfect model; there are issues with
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Can a Certified Public Accountant’s professional CPA designation be a marital asset? I am going to elaborate on the state of North Carolina‚ my state of residence. In many states if a spouse has acquired a degree during the marriage then it can count as an asset in terms of spousal support. Normally it does not carry a physical value like a car or house‚ but it does have value because the financial situation of a married couple would have had to suffer during the course of education for the specific
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Compare how schools and colleges in the USA help prepare young people for participation in professional sport to those in the UK. Evaluate the effectiveness of both systems. In the USA the main aim in sport‚ even from a young age‚ is winning and they heavily adopt the ‘Lombardian’ ethic‚ meaning in general they strive much more greatly for excellence rather than mass participation. This is dissimilar to the UK‚ who is in general much more concentrated on mass participation than they are on elitism
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opinion‚ professional athletes deserve their salaries because of their talent‚ the huge revenue they draw‚ the demands of their job‚ and society’s emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine tune those abilities to become professional; those
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Do professional athletes get paid enough? Yes‚ they do‚ and for many different reasons. Athletes have to deal with large commitments‚ the danger of playing sports‚ and common life expenses. Often‚ professional athletes are offered contracts by a certain team or sponsor. Some of these contracts can be for a long period of time too. Next‚ playing sports has a very large risk for injury. These athletes never know when they will have a career ending injury. Lastly‚ athletes still have to pay for common
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Professional athletes get paid over a million ¬¬dollars each year just to compete and advertise for companies while teachers get paid $40k- $158k per year. Boxer Floyd Mayweather‚ Jr. is the highest paid athlete of 2015-2016 making $150 million yearly with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain coming in a close second with a yearly salary of $80 million. Teachers and professors in Luxembourg are paid the highest amount in the world with a starting salary of $79k that can reach over $138k. The
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Are professional athletes overpaid? This question continues to permeate conversations from the board rooms to locker rooms; to street corners and beyond. How much is too much money for an athlete to earn. Folks will argue that the money could be spent on increasing teachers salaries as they are responsible for sculpting the minds of the American youth. Athletes make more money in one day than most Americans will make in a lifetime. New York Times best selling author David Epstein posed the following
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